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AltheaRose |
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May 15, 2012 10:16:22pm |
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GratefulDead
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Re: The Grateful Dead vs. Led Zeppelin |
I loved Zeppelin from the time I heard Immigrant Song in 5th grade or so; it was just the perfect song for a kid obsessed with Norse myths. Through middle/high school, I bought every album and played them incessantly and had a big huge poster of Zeppelin on my wall.
When I got into the GD, somehow my interest in Zeppelin completely faded ... probably it had been fading anyway as I got more into edgy punk plus 60s psychedelic music ... and when I've gone back to listen to them over the years, they've always struck me as, yeah, one-dimensional -- brilliant for an adolescent mindset, but not something that has ever really spoken to me as an adult.
Maybe that's just me and how I process it. The energy is very different (and rather, again, one-dimensional), and the lyrics are ... meh. I can enjoy them, but for me it's in a nostalgic way.
One of my son's best friends is a huge Zeppelin fan, though. (At just about the right age for it IMO.) So they do definitely have staying power. Just not with me :-)
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